Confederate Flag

[Thomas Thorne]

(06-25-2015 12:27 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  I have over twenty ancestors that served honorably in gray. Again, I think the focus on the Confederate flag at this time is akin to "ignoring the elephant in the room." Our country is in deep deep trouble- and I'm sorry but the Confederate flag is not the cause of the trouble -and removal of it is not the solution.

God bless you Bill

The flying of the Confederate flag in the capital of South Carolina did not begin in modern times until 1962 when Southern Democratic politicians used it as a gesture of defiance against the civil rights revolution. We Republicans have issues with the Confederate flag dating back to 1861. As large numbers of our countrymen have sincere feelings of revulsion toward the symbols of the Confederacy and the particular placement in stars and Bars in the statehouse gives a certain endorsement, the flag should be removed.

I find myself appalled at the behavior of some of the advocates of its removal. They display a hatred of present day white southerners whom they ludicrously believe are panting to restore white supremacy. If you had said in 1915 that the white supremacy regimes of the American South and South Africa would collapse without a bloodbath, you would have have been scorned. One day a great historian will explain to us why 1960's Southern politicians did not do what their ancestors did in 1861.

When Apple announced it would no longer sell war games with the Confederate flag logo on the cover, we have reached dangerous levels of hysteria. Will someone propose we dynamite Surratt House and Stones Mountain as Confederate symbols? This is something the Taliban and ISIS do. A movie critic even argued for the stoppage of further releases of "Gone With the Wind."

Tom